The present Master Thesis is the outcome of two years study of "Gender and Development" program in Bergen (Norway) and my 3-months fieldwork in Managua (Nicaragua). My aim in this thesis is to explore the experiences and ...

Relational changes takes place during adolescence, and there is a tendency to decreased life satisfaction compared to childhood. Percieved emotional support is the support resource with the strongest link to factors relevant ...

Based on the Job Demands-Resources model and Differential Job Demands-Resources model, the present study investigates job demands that may affect Norwegian leaders' work engagement. Time pressure and work-family conflict ...

The government of Uganda, in its endeavours to reduce poverty by empowering women, has since 2001 been implementing the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) programme. NAADS is aimed at enhancing rural livelihoods, ...

Background: Reducing the scope of absenteeism is a key issue in health-promoting work, and during the last years the concept of health-promoting working places has been developed. Reducing absenteeism is a focus area of ...

Humanitarian aid does not always achieve its intended outcomes but may have unintended side-effects which harm rather than help recipient communities in the long run. In the context of aid, iatrogenic violence refers to ...

Brief dynamic psychotherapy has its origins in traditional psychodynamic therapy. The most
important features of brief dynamic psychotherapy include preplanned time-limited therapy,
identifying and holding on to a focus, ...

The purpose of this study is to gain an understanding of what students in high school thinks is important when the teacher uses a digital forum in teaching. I use a forum with a low entry level for the user which is available ...

Objective: The literature is inconclusive regarding predictors of
treatment outcome in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Illness perception (IP) has been identified as an important
predictor of treatment outcome in ...

Protecting the environment and enjoying a high quality of life are two pursuits often viewed as being in conflict with each other, although this assumption is largely based on conventional wisdom rather than science. In ...

Background Previous studies have shown that adverse conditions during fetal and early life are associated with lower performance on neurocognitive tests in childhood, adolescence and adult life. There is, however, a paucity ...

This pilot study aimed to examine the feasibility of a future main experiment that will address the role of gaze communication in team functioning in a simulator environment. Feasibility was operationalized in terms of ...

Schizophrenia is characterized by impaired cognitive functioning, and brain regions involved in cognitive control processes show marked glutamatergic abnormalities. However, it is presently unclear whether aberrant neuronal ...

Background: Maternal smoking during pregnancy (MSDP) is associated with multiple adverse childhood outcomes including externalizing behaviors. However, the association between MSDP and internalizing (anxiety and depressive) ...

From a Norwegian point of view, doctrinaire guidance now set the premises
for new perspectives related to the military ethos and identity. The exodus of
idealism, a military identity based on traditional values as altruism, ...

The aim of this study was to investigate cognitive inhibition in first
episode major depressive disorder (MDD) at a one-year follow-up.
Firty-three participants were assessed on the Behavior Rating
Inventory of Executive ...

Background In Norway, as in the rest of Europe, people live on average longer and healthier lives than previous generations but are faced with increasing health inequities revealing socio-ecological factors as the main ...

Background: The increasing presence of social
inequities in health defies the values of
solidarity and justice. In an attempt to address
this challenge The Public Health Act was adopted
2012 in Norway. The Act proposes ...

Introduction: Organised physical activity has been suggested as specifically
conducive for adolescents’ physical and psychological health. This thesis employed a
health promotion approach to investigate the associations ...

This article offers an analysis of four Norwegian policy documents on inclusion of minority language pupils. The main concepts of this policy will be reconstructed and re-described, applying Niklas Luhmann's systems theory ...